After World War 1, huge economic sanctions were imposed on Germany for what they did wrong. Looking back, this was a huge mistake - it contributed to the rise of the Nazi party, and turned Germany against the rest of Europe - in particular, the young Germans who had nothing to do with World War 1.

Now, young Greeks who had nothing to do with the debt that Greece accrued are being punished - 50% of 15-24 year olds are not in education, employment or training (NEETs). They had nothing to do with how the crisis started.

This is leading the smartest and best Greeks to leave for other European countries where they actually have a chance of getting a decent job. People who would otherwise be helping the economy recover.

It's true that Greece has done some bad things. But at this point, their debt is unmanageable. And the conditions that their creditors are putting upon them are not rational - the IMF have acknowledged that in order for Greece's debt to be sustainable, they would need to become the most productive, highest labour force participation rate in Europe.

This is somewhat of a ramble, but the crux of the matter is this - at what point would you consider Greece to be sufficiently punished? When a Nazi party rises in their country? When they lose their young and talented? When their economy tanks, and people starve, and are evicted from their homes? Because all of those things have already happened, and are still happening. Do you think that 10, 20, 50 years from now, these things should still be happening to the Greeks that don't even remember the start of the crisis, because they weren't even born?

At some point, Europe needs to let Greece have a working economy again.

With regards to ants carrying dead ants, that is indeed a thing. This study talks about how ants remove their dead, based on the chemicals that the ants release after they have died. I've also read/heard about how these chemicals have since been reproduced, and when live ants have these chemicals dropped on them, the other ants will literally pick them up, still moving, and carry them out the colony. Which is some research I wish I could do. It's called necrophoresis, and is most likely an evolved behaviour, as having a lot of dead bodies around is generally bad for your health/survival rates.

For the eggs, I'd guess that when you poured the boiling water over them, the eggs died and then started releasing the same dead-ant chemicals, causing the drones to remove them. Though there may well be some other reason.

With ants, the majority of what they do is entirely based on chemicals. This video explains how you can get leaf-cutter ants to carry a piece of paper for you if you dope it with sodium, as that is what they harvest from the leaves.

The thing with Lord of the Rings, for me, is the way in which it was written. Tolkien was always making up languages from a very young age, and the concept of Middle Earth came about because he realised that in order to properly develop his languages, he needed a world and a history for them.

To me, this incredible level of complexity is what's really amazing about LOTR. And the fact that he has fully developed languages for all the different races is almost unbelievable. All of that cannot be expressed through a movie. The movie only gives a snapshot of the history of the world.

I think it's absolutely worth reading, but try and get out of the 'This is too unrealistic, people don't actually talk like this' mentality. Books aren't meant to be accurate depictions of reality, and no, people in real life don't talk like that. But the story, meaning and metaphor in the book are worth your time, I think.

Thing is, when she originally told the lie, he probably wasn't a future marriage partner in her head. Which makes the lie about the abortion and threesome more understandable. I also get the feeling of being too deep in the relationship to reveal the lie. Not that she's totally in the right - just trying to see it from her POV.

Agreed, I have Ubuntu installed on my computer as well, but of the ~140 games in my steam library, only around 50 are playable on it. Also, although Open/LibreOffice do work, they don't work quite as well as their Microsoft counterparts, at least for my purposes.

Hopefully people will actually buy Steamboxes and encourage more developers to make their games more Linux friendly.

I would say that /r/buildapc, while not dedicated to all computer hardware, is probably your best bet. You get to see what people are using to build their computers at all different price ranges, right now.